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James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
* J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
* A.B., Harvard College
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### Sohan Dasgupta
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Sohan Dasgupta, JD, PhD, is a lawyer, executive, and public servant with leadership experience in law, trade, and national security. His work has included trial and appellate litigation, regulatory matters, and international trade and arbitration. He has argued cases before the federal courts of appeals and has briefed matters before the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Dasgupta served as Assistant Secretary for Trade and Economic Security, responsible for a comprehensive national security portfolio. His duties included oversight of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Team Telecom, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS), Arctic security initiatives, the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE) Pact, and related trade matters. Sohan Dasgupta also served as political head of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), supporting U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives. Previously, he had served as Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Dr. Dasgupta holds a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was elected to the _Order of the Coif_; a PhD in international trade and arbitration from the University of Cambridge; MSc from the University of Oxford; and BA in Economics–Operations Research and History from Columbia University. He commenced his legal career with clerkships on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
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### James Y. Stern
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
* J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
* A.B., Harvard College
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### Randy E. Barnett
Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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Randy Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, tried murder cases to juries as a prosecutor in Chicago, and appeared as a prosecutor in the feature film Inalienable. He is the author of numerous books, including _Restoring the Lost Constitution, The Structure of Liberty, Our Republican Constitution, and The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment._ He has published two memoirs, _A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist,_ and _Felony Review: Tales of True Crime and Corruption in Chicago_. He is currently working on a new book, _Freedom and Flourishing: Libertarianism for the Real World_.
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### Daniel J. Kelly
Partner, McCarter & English, LLP
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Daniel Kelly brings over thirty years of experience to the firm’s government contracts group.His practice combines both counseling and acting as an advocate on behalf of clients doing business in the government marketplace. Dan has knowledge of the government contracting process both on a federal and state level, and the specific laws, regulations, contract clauses and dispute resolution mechanisms in this specialized area. He provides advice and guidance to clients who are in the government supply chain, either as prime contractors, subcontractors or vendors. He reviews government solicitations with clients, prepares proposals, and negotiates teaming arrangements and subcontracts with other suppliers. He helps clients build and enhance their compliance programs. He assists clients in protecting their intellectual property and proprietary information concerning their businesses when doing business with the government. He advocates for clients who wrongfully were passed over for a contract award. He prepares claims arising under government contracts as a result of change orders, delays, and terminations for default or convenience. Dan’s practice extends to a broad spectrum of industries and federal and state authorities for whom they supply research, products and services, including emerging and established biomedical, intelligence, pharma, security, and textile R&D, manufacturing and production houses working under prime and subcontracts, SBIRs, CRADAs, OTAs, and grants for DoD and civilian agencies; Medicare and Medicaid audit and investigation service providers; commercial software developers who modify their software for military applications; professional services providers; and raw materials and component suppliers to large military prime contractors.
Dan is the author of the August 2018 edition Thomson Reuters’[Briefing Papers](https://www.mccarter.com/files/Uploads/Documents/Kelly%20Daniel%20IP%20Rights%20Under%20NASA%20and%20DoD.pdf), which provides a comprehensive review of patent rights under “Other Transaction Agreements” (OTAs) with DoD and NASA. Heavily promoted by Congress, and only partially understood by industry, OTAs are quickly becoming DoD’s and NASA’s contractual vehicle of choice to lure commercial companies to sell the Government their latest and greatest technologies. However, OTAs are not governed by standard government contracts laws and regulations, meaning there are significant changes to the common provisions of ownership and license rights incident to government contracts and grants. The Briefing Paper should be required reading before entities enter into an OTA as a vehicle for developing new technologies for NASA and DoD to ensure their company’s intellectual property efforts are properly protected
In the matters, AdvanceMed Corporation, B-415360,B-415360.2,B-415360.3 (Dec 19, 2017), and AdvanceMed Corporation, B-414373.3 (Jan 10, 2018) Dan and the Government Contracts team at McCarter successfully defended its client Health Integrity, LLC (now Qlarant) against protests launched at the Government Accountability Office challenging awards by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicare and Medicaid audit and program integrity services.
Dan serves on the Board of Directors for NCMA Boston (National Contract Management Association) and NDIA New England (National Defense Industrial Association), and is a frequent speaker at NCMA and NDIA events.
Dan serves as an adjunct member of the faculty at Suffolk University Law School where he has taught Government Contracts.
Dan receives Mentor of the Year Award in recognition of his contributions and support to NCMA Boston Chapter’s 2017-2018 Program Year.
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### Orin S. Kerr
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
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Orin S. Kerr is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure and computer crime law. Kerr earned mechanical engineering degrees from Princeton University and Stanford University before graduating with a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a former law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the United States Supreme Court and Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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### James Y. Stern
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
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### Robin Fretwell Wilson
Professor, University of Illinois College of Law
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Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
A scholar in family law, bioethics and law and religion, Professor Wilson has worked extensively on behalf of state and federal law reform efforts in each realm.
Across two decades, she has worked to secure laws protecting the autonomy of patients to decide when they will be used to teach intimate exams to medical students, laws now in place in 22 states—sixteen of which have been enacted since 2019.
Professor Wilson is known for bridging differences in the culture war. In 2015, she spent a month in residence with the Utah legislature, helping Utah state lawmakers to pass anti-discrimination legislation that balances religious liberty and LGBT rights. In 2019, Professor Wilson assisted the governor of Utah to craft regulations banning gay conversion therapy. In 2019, she also aided U.S. Representative Chris Stewart with portions of the “Fairness for All” he introduced in Congress. A member of the American Law Institute and a Fulbright Specialist, Professor Wilson has served as a consultant to the United Arab Emirates’ Judicial Department as they sought to create a parallel court system for the adjudication by expatriates of family law matters using the laws of their home country or of their faith traditions.
Professor Wilson is the author of 20 books, including her 2018 book,_Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground_, with Yale University Professor William Eskridge, Jr., which is now in paperback at Cambridge University Press. Her other books include:_The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law_(Cambridge University Press, 2018, ed.),_Reconceiving the Family: Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution_(Cambridge University Press, 2006, ed.);_The Handbook of Children, Culture & Violence_(Sage Publications, 2006, with Nancy Dowd and Dorothy Singer, eds.);_Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts_(Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, with Douglas Laycock and Anthony Picarello, eds.);_Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context_(Aspen, 2008, with Joan Krause, Sandra Johnson, and Richard Saver, eds.);_Domestic Relations: Cases and Materials, 8th edition_(Foundation Press, 2017, with Walter Wadlington and Raymond C. O’Brien); and _Understanding Family Law, 4th edition_(LexisNexis, 2013, with John DeWitt Gregory and Peter N. Swisher).Her articles have appeared in the _Boston College Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Illinois Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, San Diego Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review_, and _Washington and Lee Law Review_, as well as in numerous peer-reviewed journals.
In 2010 and again in 2016, Professor Wilson was ranked among the Top Ten Family Law Scholars in the United States for scholarly impact. She ranks among the Top 10% of Authors in all time downloads on the Social Science Research Network. Professor Wilson’s scholarship has been cited by the Fifth, Seventh and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Minnesota Court of Appeals, lower federal courts, and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, and Washington.
Professor Wilson’s work has been featured in the _New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, U.S. News and World Report, ABA Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chicago Tribune, CNN Headline News, Good Morning America, ABC News, CBS News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Essence Magazine, The American Prospect, People Magazine, The American Conservative, The Australian_, and _Al Jazeera_, among others. She has presented her research across the world, including the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, China, Israel, Qatar, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Wales, Poland, Spain, Serbia, Japan, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Turkey, and France.
Professor Wilson has seven times been honored for her work on innovative laws that respect all persons. In 2007, she received the Citizen’s Legislative Award for her work on changing Virginia’s informed consent law. In 2018, Professor Wilson received the Thomas L. Kane Religious Freedom Award from the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, which is presented annually to an individual who exemplifies the spirit of religious liberty for all and who has contributed in significant ways to the defense of religious freedom in the public square.
In 2018, Professor Wilson was honored as one of the 150 for 150: Celebrating the Accomplishments of Women at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for its sesquicentennial celebration. In 2020, Professor Wilson received the 2020 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Advocacy for LGBTQ Affairs, a university-wide honor given by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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### Mihailis E. Diamantis
Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
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Mihailis Diamantis’ legal research focuses on corporate crime and criminal theory. He is concerned with how familiar concepts like mens rea shape corporate incentives and the justice of verdicts involving corporate defendants. He has subsidiary interests in privacy law and surveillance.
Professor Diamantis has a courtesy appointment with the Department of Philosophy. His philosophical writings cover a range of topics from action theory, to moral psychology, to experimental philosophy.
Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa, Professor Diamantis was an associate at Columbia Law School. He clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked on white-collar investigations as an attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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### Theodore "Ted" Frank
Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute
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Theodore H. Frank is director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness. Frank founded and ran CCAF as a non-profit, public interest law firm in 2009.
Frank has won several landmark appeals and tens of millions of dollars for consumers and other plaintiffs through his class action work. Adam Liptak of _The New York Times_ calls Frank “the leading critic of abusive class action settlements” and the _American Lawyer Litigation Daily_ referred to him as “the indefatigable scourge of underwhelming class action settlements.”
Previously, Frank clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a litigator at firms in Washington and Los Angeles and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Frank is a frequent public speaker and has testified before Congress multiple times on legal issues. He has been profiled by _The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, GQ_, and the _ABA Journal_, among other publications.
In 2008, Frank was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group. Frank graduated from The University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the state bars of California and Illinois.
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### Brian L. Frye
Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law
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Brian L. Frye joined the faculty of the College of Law in 2012. He teaches classes in civil procedure, intellectual property, copyright, and nonprofit organizations, as well as a seminar on law and popular culture. Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law, and a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He clerked for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Richard B. Sanders of the Washington Supreme Court. He received a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 2005, an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. His research focuses on intellectual property and charity law, especially in relation to artists and arts organizations.
Professor Frye is also a filmmaker. He produced the documentary Our Nixon (2013), which was broadcast by CNN and opened theatrically nationwide. His short films and videos have shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among other venues, and are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. His critical writing on film and art has appeared in October, The New Republic, Film Comment, Cineaste, Senses of Cinema, and Incite! among other journals.
Additionally, Professor Frye also produces a podcast, Ipse Dixit [https://shows.pippa.io/ipse-dixit](https://shows.pippa.io/ipse-dixit)
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### Justin (Gus) Hurwitz
Senior Fellow and Academic Director, Penn Carey Law School
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Gus Hurwitz is a Senior Fellow and the Academic Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where he is working to develop academic and scholarly programs at the intersecution of law, technology, and policy.
He is also Director of Law & Economics Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), a think tank based in Portland, Oregon, where he directs its law and economics-focused research program and helps to translate academic research into applied policy issues.
Hurwitz's research focuses on the regulation of technology, including administrative and regulatory law, antitrust law, torts and products liability, and media law - alongside cognate fields. Inrecent years he has worked on an AI standardization initiative with Seoul National University, a UNICEF-organized study of broadband deployment to public schools in Rwanda, and a book on conglomerate and ecosystems theories of antitrust.
He has published over 30 articles and book chapters, two books (one on cybersecurity law & policy, one on media regulation in the digital era) and have two more in process, over 100 shorter writings (op-eds, shorter analyses, blog posts, &c), hosted over 100 podcast episodes, and regularly appear or am quoted in popular media (including the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Associated Press). His work has been cited by legislators, federal courts of appeals, and federal regulatory agencies.
He was previously a full professor and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska, prior to which he was the inaugural research fellow at the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC). From 2007 to 2010, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section.
He also is, or has been, affiliated with the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law, the National Security Institute at George Mason University, and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Before attending law school, Hurwitz worked at Los Alamos National Lab and interned at the Naval Research Lab. During this time his work was recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium, Los Alamos National Lab, IEEE & ACM, Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, R&D Magazine, and even the Guinness Book of World Records.
A current list of Hurwitz’s publications is available on his website: GusHurwitz.net.
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### Daniel Lyons
Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Boston College Law School; Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Boston College Law School
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Professor Lyons is a Professor and Associate Dean at Boston College Law School. He specializes in telecommunications and tech policy, energy, and administrative law. Before joining the faculty, he practiced at the firm of Munger, Tolles and Olson in Los Angeles. He also clerked for the Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Lyons is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has written over 250 blog posts on tech policy issues, including net neutrality, telecommunications regulation, First Amendment issues with tech regulation, and generative AI.
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### Bradley Shannon
Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law
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Prof. Shannon has expertise in civil procedure, legal process, and federal courts and litigation. Prior to joining Florida Coastal School of Law in 2004, Prof. Shannon was an Instructor/Visiting Associate Professor at University of Idaho College of Law and an Attorney with Helsell Fetterman LLP. He earned a J.D. from University of Washington School of Law and a B.A. from University of Washington.
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### Erin Sheley
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Prof. Sheley joined the College of Law in 2018. Before coming to OU she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. She has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the George Washington University Law School and an Olin-Searle Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to academia she practiced for several years in the litigation group of the Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. While in practice she was commended by the Humane Society of the United States for her pro bono work in the prosecution of dog fighting sponsors. She is proud to have served on the Board of Directors of the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society.
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### James Y. Stern
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
* J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
* A.B., Harvard College
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### Jonathan H. Adler
Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor, William & Mary Law School
###### Biography
Jonathan H. Adler joined the William & Mary law faculty as the Tazwell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor in 2025. Prior to joining the faculty, he was the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution (Palgrave, 2023), Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (Brookings Institution Press, 2020), Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011).
His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2024 study identified Professor Adler as the seventh most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law from 2019 to 2023.
Professor Adler is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS Newshour and National Public Radio to the Fox News Channel and Entertainment Tonight.
Professor Adler is a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. In 2018, Professor Adler was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and helped co-found the organization Checks and Balances. In 2024, Professor Adler was appointed a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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### David V. Snyder
Professor of Law; Director, Business Law Program, American University Washington College of Law
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David V. Snyder is professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and is the director of the Business Law Program. He was also a visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan from January to May 2024. He has been a regular visiting professor at the law school of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) since 2012, and during 2021-2022, he held a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (Florence). In 2014, he was awarded a McCormick Fellowship, during which he delivered the Wilson Memorial Lecture (University of Edinburgh).
Professor Snyder’s research and teaching interests are primarily in contracts and commercial law, including their U.S., international, and comparative aspects. He is known for his work on international commercial transactions and is the author (with Martin Davies) of International Transactions in Goods: Global Sales in Comparative Context (Oxford University Press 2014). More particularly, he has devoted considerable effort to using contracts to protect the environment and the human rights of workers in international supply chains, and his book (with Susan A. Maslow) Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (American Bar Association 2023) includes the Model Contract Clauses produced by a working group and task force that he chairs for the ABA Business Law Section. He is also co-chair of a similar working group in Europe. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on these and other topics
A Louisiana native, Professor Snyder graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School after earning his undergraduate degree cum laude from Yale. He clerked for the Honorable John M. Duhé Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and subsequently joined the D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). He began his academic career at Cleveland-Marshall College at Law Cleveland State University and then moved to Indiana University (Bloomington) before joining the faculty at Tulane Law School. He returned to Washington to accept his current appointment in 2006. In addition, Professor Snyder has served as a visiting professor at the University of Paris 10 (Nanterre La Défense), Boston University, and the College of William and Mary, and he has taught summer courses at the University of Mainz (Germany).
Professor Snyder was chair of the Section on Contracts of the Association of American Law Schools (2005-2006) and chaired the Washington steering committee for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law (2010). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and has served on the board of directors of the Washington Foreign Law Society, the board of editors of the _American Journal of Comparative Law_, and the scientific council of the _French Journal of Legal Policy_
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### Ilya Somin
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
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ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights. He is the author of[_Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom_](https://www.amazon.com/Free-Move-Migration-Political-Freedom-dp-0197618774/dp/0197618774/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=)(Oxford University Press, revised and expanded edition, 2022),_[Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter](https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Political-Ignorance-Smaller-Government/dp/0804799318/)_(Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and _[The Grasping Hand:](https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Hand-London-Limits-Eminent/dp/022625660X/)[Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain](https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Hand-London-Limits-Eminent/dp/022642216X/)_(University of Chicago Press, 2015, rev. paperback ed., 2016),coauthor of _[A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case](https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Obamacare-Volokh-Affordable/dp/1137363746)_(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor of _[Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective](https://www.amazon.com/Eminent-Domain-Comparative-Iljoong-Kim/dp/1316628337/ref=mt\_paperback?\_encoding=UTF8&me)_(Cambridge University Press, 2017).Democracy and Political Ignorance has been translated into Italian and Japanese.
Somin’s work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal,Stanford Law Review,Northwestern University Law Review,Georgetown Law Journal,Critical Review, and others.Somin has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including the New York Times,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC,The Atlantic,USA Today,Boston Globe,US News and World Report,South China Morning Post,National Law Journal and Reason. He has been quoted or interviewed by the New York Times,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal,Time,Newsweek,The Economist,the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times,The Guardian, the Associated Press, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, Reuters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Al Jazeera, and the Voice of America, among other media.
Somin’s writings have been cited in decisions by the United States Supreme Court, multiple state supreme courts and lower federal courts, and the Supreme Court of Israel. He is co-counsel for the plaintiffs in VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump, a case challenging the constitutionality of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Somin has testified on the use of drones for targeted killing in the War on Terror before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights. In 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Somin writes regularly for the popular[_Volokh Conspiracy_](http://reason.com/volokh)law and politics blog, now affiliated with Reason magazine (previously affiliated with the Washington Post from 2014 to 2017). From 2006 to 2013, he served as Co-Editor of the _[Supreme Court Economic Review](http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/scer/current)_,one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals.
Somin has served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has also been a visiting professor or scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Hamburg, Germany, the University of Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Uriel Reichman University in Israel, and Zhengzhou University in China. He is a University Affiliate of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and an affiliated faculty member of the George Mason University Institute for Immigration Research. Before joining the faculty at George Mason, Somin was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his B.A.,Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University, and J.D. from Yale Law School.
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### James Y. Stern
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
###### Biography
James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
* J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
* A.B., Harvard College
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### Jonathan H. Adler
Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor, William & Mary Law School
###### Biography
Jonathan H. Adler joined the William & Mary law faculty as the Tazwell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor in 2025. Prior to joining the faculty, he was the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution (Palgrave, 2023), Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (Brookings Institution Press, 2020), Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011).
His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2024 study identified Professor Adler as the seventh most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law from 2019 to 2023.
Professor Adler is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS Newshour and National Public Radio to the Fox News Channel and Entertainment Tonight.
Professor Adler is a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. In 2018, Professor Adler was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and helped co-found the organization Checks and Balances. In 2024, Professor Adler was appointed a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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### Ilya Somin
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
###### Biography
ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights. He is the author of[_Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom_](https://www.amazon.com/Free-Move-Migration-Political-Freedom-dp-0197618774/dp/0197618774/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=)(Oxford University Press, revised and expanded edition, 2022),_[Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter](https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Political-Ignorance-Smaller-Government/dp/0804799318/)_(Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and _[The Grasping Hand:](https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Hand-London-Limits-Eminent/dp/022625660X/)[Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain](https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Hand-London-Limits-Eminent/dp/022642216X/)_(University of Chicago Press, 2015, rev. paperback ed., 2016),coauthor of _[A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case](https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Obamacare-Volokh-Affordable/dp/1137363746)_(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor of _[Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective](https://www.amazon.com/Eminent-Domain-Comparative-Iljoong-Kim/dp/1316628337/ref=mt\_paperback?\_encoding=UTF8&me)_(Cambridge University Press, 2017).Democracy and Political Ignorance has been translated into Italian and Japanese.
Somin’s work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal,Stanford Law Review,Northwestern University Law Review,Georgetown Law Journal,Critical Review, and others.Somin has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including the New York Times,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC,The Atlantic,USA Today,Boston Globe,US News and World Report,South China Morning Post,National Law Journal and Reason. He has been quoted or interviewed by the New York Times,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal,Time,Newsweek,The Economist,the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times,The Guardian, the Associated Press, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, Reuters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Al Jazeera, and the Voice of America, among other media.
Somin’s writings have been cited in decisions by the United States Supreme Court, multiple state supreme courts and lower federal courts, and the Supreme Court of Israel. He is co-counsel for the plaintiffs in VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump, a case challenging the constitutionality of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Somin has testified on the use of drones for targeted killing in the War on Terror before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights. In 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Somin writes regularly for the popular[_Volokh Conspiracy_](http://reason.com/volokh)law and politics blog, now affiliated with Reason magazine (previously affiliated with the Washington Post from 2014 to 2017). From 2006 to 2013, he served as Co-Editor of the _[Supreme Court Economic Review](http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/scer/current)_,one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals.
Somin has served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has also been a visiting professor or scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Hamburg, Germany, the University of Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Uriel Reichman University in Israel, and Zhengzhou University in China. He is a University Affiliate of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and an affiliated faculty member of the George Mason University Institute for Immigration Research. Before joining the faculty at George Mason, Somin was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his B.A.,Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University, and J.D. from Yale Law School.
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### James Y. Stern
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
###### Biography
James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
* J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
* A.B., Harvard College
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### David V. Snyder
Professor of Law; Director, Business Law Program, American University Washington College of Law
###### Biography
David V. Snyder is professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and is the director of the Business Law Program. He was also a visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan from January to May 2024. He has been a regular visiting professor at the law school of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) since 2012, and during 2021-2022, he held a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (Florence). In 2014, he was awarded a McCormick Fellowship, during which he delivered the Wilson Memorial Lecture (University of Edinburgh).
Professor Snyder’s research and teaching interests are primarily in contracts and commercial law, including their U.S., international, and comparative aspects. He is known for his work on international commercial transactions and is the author (with Martin Davies) of International Transactions in Goods: Global Sales in Comparative Context (Oxford University Press 2014). More particularly, he has devoted considerable effort to using contracts to protect the environment and the human rights of workers in international supply chains, and his book (with Susan A. Maslow) Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (American Bar Association 2023) includes the Model Contract Clauses produced by a working group and task force that he chairs for the ABA Business Law Section. He is also co-chair of a similar working group in Europe. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on these and other topics
A Louisiana native, Professor Snyder graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School after earning his undergraduate degree cum laude from Yale. He clerked for the Honorable John M. Duhé Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and subsequently joined the D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). He began his academic career at Cleveland-Marshall College at Law Cleveland State University and then moved to Indiana University (Bloomington) before joining the faculty at Tulane Law School. He returned to Washington to accept his current appointment in 2006. In addition, Professor Snyder has served as a visiting professor at the University of Paris 10 (Nanterre La Défense), Boston University, and the College of William and Mary, and he has taught summer courses at the University of Mainz (Germany).
Professor Snyder was chair of the Section on Contracts of the Association of American Law Schools (2005-2006) and chaired the Washington steering committee for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law (2010). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and has served on the board of directors of the Washington Foreign Law Society, the board of editors of the _American Journal of Comparative Law_, and the scientific council of the _French Journal of Legal Policy_
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### Jonathan H. Adler
Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor, William & Mary Law School
###### Biography
Jonathan H. Adler joined the William & Mary law faculty as the Tazwell Taylor Professor of Law and William H. Cabell Research Professor in 2025. Prior to joining the faculty, he was the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution (Palgrave, 2023), Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (Brookings Institution Press, 2020), Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011).
His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2024 study identified Professor Adler as the seventh most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law from 2019 to 2023.
Professor Adler is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS Newshour and National Public Radio to the Fox News Channel and Entertainment Tonight.
Professor Adler is a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. In 2018, Professor Adler was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and helped co-found the organization Checks and Balances. In 2024, Professor Adler was appointed a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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### Ilya Somin
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
###### Biography
ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights. He is the author of[_Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom_](https://www.amazon.com/Free-Move-Migration-Political-Freedom-dp-0197618774/dp/0197618774/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=)(Oxford University Press, revised and expanded edition, 2022),_[Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter](https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Political-Ignorance-Smaller-Government/dp/0804799318/)_(Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and _[The Grasping Hand:](https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Hand-London-Limits-Eminent/dp/022625660X/)[Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain](https://www.amazon.com/Grasping-Hand-London-Limits-Eminent/dp/022642216X/)_(University of Chicago Press, 2015, rev. paperback ed., 2016),coauthor of _[A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case](https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Obamacare-Volokh-Affordable/dp/1137363746)_(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor of _[Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective](https://www.amazon.com/Eminent-Domain-Comparative-Iljoong-Kim/dp/1316628337/ref=mt\_paperback?\_encoding=UTF8&me)_(Cambridge University Press, 2017).Democracy and Political Ignorance has been translated into Italian and Japanese.
Somin’s work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal,Stanford Law Review,Northwestern University Law Review,Georgetown Law Journal,Critical Review, and others.Somin has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including the New York Times,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC,The Atlantic,USA Today,Boston Globe,US News and World Report,South China Morning Post,National Law Journal and Reason. He has been quoted or interviewed by the New York Times,Washington Post,Wall Street Journal,Time,Newsweek,The Economist,the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times,The Guardian, the Associated Press, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, Reuters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Al Jazeera, and the Voice of America, among other media.
Somin’s writings have been cited in decisions by the United States Supreme Court, multiple state supreme courts and lower federal courts, and the Supreme Court of Israel. He is co-counsel for the plaintiffs in VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump, a case challenging the constitutionality of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Somin has testified on the use of drones for targeted killing in the War on Terror before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights. In 2009, he testified on property rights issues at the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Somin writes regularly for the popular[_Volokh Conspiracy_](http://reason.com/volokh)law and politics blog, now affiliated with Reason magazine (previously affiliated with the Washington Post from 2014 to 2017). From 2006 to 2013, he served as Co-Editor of the _[Supreme Court Economic Review](http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/scer/current)_,one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals.
Somin has served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has also been a visiting professor or scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Hamburg, Germany, the University of Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Uriel Reichman University in Israel, and Zhengzhou University in China. He is a University Affiliate of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and an affiliated faculty member of the George Mason University Institute for Immigration Research. Before joining the faculty at George Mason, Somin was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his B.A.,Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University, and J.D. from Yale Law School.
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### James Y. Stern
Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
###### Biography
James Y. Stern joined the William & Mary faculty in 2013. His scholarship centers on property and private law theory, intellectual property, and conflict of laws. His articles have been selected for publication in the _California Law Review_, the _Harvard Law Review_, and the _Virginia Law Review_. He currently teaches Torts, the Intellectual Property Survey Course, and an advanced property seminar. He was awarded the Temple Bar Scholarship by the American Inns of Court Foundation in 2011 and is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association for England and Wales.
Professor Stern clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded the Traynor Prize for the best paper by a graduating student and named a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society, the university’s principal academic honor association.
Professor Stern received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature and wrote his honors thesis on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken. He was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship and was selected to serve as the Harvard-Shrewsbury Fellow upon graduation.
Before coming to William & Mary, Professor Stern was Research Assistant Professor at University of Virginia Law School.
* J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
* A.B., Harvard College
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### David V. Snyder
Professor of Law; Director, Business Law Program, American University Washington College of Law
###### Biography
David V. Snyder is professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and is the director of the Business Law Program. He was also a visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan from January to May 2024. He has been a regular visiting professor at the law school of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) since 2012, and during 2021-2022, he held a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (Florence). In 2014, he was awarded a McCormick Fellowship, during which he delivered the Wilson Memorial Lecture (University of Edinburgh).
Professor Snyder’s research and teaching interests are primarily in contracts and commercial law, including their U.S., international, and comparative aspects. He is known for his work on international commercial transactions and is the author (with Martin Davies) of International Transactions in Goods: Global Sales in Comparative Context (Oxford University Press 2014). More particularly, he has devoted considerable effort to using contracts to protect the environment and the human rights of workers in international supply chains, and his book (with Susan A. Maslow) Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (American Bar Association 2023) includes the Model Contract Clauses produced by a working group and task force that he chairs for the ABA Business Law Section. He is also co-chair of a similar working group in Europe. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on these and other topics
A Louisiana native, Professor Snyder graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School after earning his undergraduate degree cum laude from Yale. He clerked for the Honorable John M. Duhé Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and subsequently joined the D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). He began his academic career at Cleveland-Marshall College at Law Cleveland State University and then moved to Indiana University (Bloomington) before joining the faculty at Tulane Law School. He returned to Washington to accept his current appointment in 2006. In addition, Professor Snyder has served as a visiting professor at the University of Paris 10 (Nanterre La Défense), Boston University, and the College of William and Mary, and he has taught summer courses at the University of Mainz (Germany).
Professor Snyder was chair of the Section on Contracts of the Association of American Law Schools (2005-2006) and chaired the Washington steering committee for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law (2010). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and has served on the board of directors of the Washington Foreign Law Society, the board of editors of the _American Journal of Comparative Law_, and the scientific council of the _French Journal of Legal Policy_
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